@chaplainDMK said:
Lamb of God has pretty sick riffs all the time.
Otherwise Kyuss, Alice in Chains, Mastodon, Iron Maiden, Melvins, Carcass, Black Sabbath, Arctic Monkeys (lol), Dead Kennedys, Dire Straits etc.
@KHAndAnime said:
To me, Defeated Sanity is the king of riffs. While your usual rock or metal song has a few riffs per song, sometimes up to 6....Defeated Sanity is always rocking at least a dozen good ones in their songs. And unlike your usual rock or metal band...Defeated Sanity actually writes the music around the riffs, rather than writing riffs to back up with that lead singer is doing (majority of rock music). They always take the extra step to make a riff more technical, varied, and interesting. Their guitarist plays with more vigor than anyone I've heard. The usual Black Sabbath song would take me a couple of days to learn to play. The usual Defeated Sanity song would take me a couple of weeks, if not over a month.
Most rock bands (especially the more riffy ones) make a song first and put lyrics over them later. You can listen to the demos when they just have random humming and weird stupid ryhmes over parts of songs as stop-gaps before they finish up the lyrics.
Also god I can't stand modern brutal death, it's getting way too random and ungroovy just to stay edgy. It's just a random mish-mash of various riffs that sometimes barely even make sense together, with a awfully generic breakdown in the middle, and just random grunting over it, totally disconnected from the music. Old stuff like Infecting the Crypts always feels so much heavier and more brutal than this stuff, this just feels like it's trying too hard. /rant /nothingpersonal /nooffense :D
How exactly does random and ungroovy relate to edginess?
The thing is, when the rock bands write their songs first, they mostly use the same song structure (verse-chorus), and anything composed with that song structure isn't going to be riff-centric.
As for this song, the riffs make perfect sense together. Composition-wise, everything ties together amazingly. There is no breakdown in the song, but I'm guessing you're referring to a slam. A breakdown is one-note down-tuned chugging, slams are basically just riffs played slower. Essentially, this is Infecting the Crypts taken to the next-level. Defeated Sanity, to most of its fans, is the band Suffocation would be if they didn't get old and tired. If it's too fast for you, that's understandable, but the song isn't repeating itself throughout, so it's essentially like a really dense "story". Infecting the Crypts has a really identifiable song structure, and is actually a really basic song on paper. This maintains the heaviness that Infecting the Crypts brings, but adds way more intricacy. If intricacy isn't your thing, then Defeated Sanity will go over your head. There are a ton of different rhythms and riffs in each song, so much so that people accustomed to less will think the music is just random noise.
Most people wants music that treads similar grounds - this music doesn't. If you want Suffocation - there are a million Suffocation clones. But there are bands that are trying to take what Suffocation did, put a spin on it, and that's how you get a band like Defeated Sanity.
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